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Using and Learning Drake
Drake is a new piece of software I discovered that can be very helpful for automating data manipulation and management. The use case …
Dec 15, 2016
3 min read
Leaving Facebook, Going to Twitter
I wrote this as an initial attempt to think through how one should approach life on social media in an age of political polarization. …
Nov 13, 2016
4 min read
More Understanding, More Understanding
President Trump. I could feel my stomach dropping at about 9pm on Tuesday night when I read that Trump was winning the rural counties …
Nov 13, 2016
3 min read
Political Correctness and Academic Punking
Political correctness is hot once again. Donald Trump is beating the drum against political correctness in his speeches and I suddenly …
Mar 17, 2016
5 min read
Musings
Diagnostic Politics and National Psychoses - Part 2
I want to continue some of my thoughts on psychotherapy and politics that I started to discuss in Tuesday’s post. I’m …
Mar 11, 2016
4 min read
Observing
Diagnostic Politics and National Psychoses - Part 1
So I have been thinking in psychiatric terms about a number of topics over the past few weeks, in relation to my own work in data …
Mar 8, 2016
4 min read
Observing
Rethinking Internet Addiction
When I first read the news reports about internet addiction in the early and mid-2000s I dismissed the idea. How, I thought, could …
Mar 3, 2016
3 min read
Musings
Libraries, Data, and Collectionism
So I’ve been thinking about a way to describe the enthusiasm about big data that has captured the business, government, and …
Feb 26, 2016
4 min read
Musings
Zen and the Art of Science Popularization
I remember reading a stack of popular physics books back in the 1980s and 1990s that proposed a connection between quantum physics and …
Feb 25, 2016
3 min read
Musings
How important is usability for data librarianship?
A comment on discussions during the DLF forum 2015. Does usability matter for providing access to library collections as data? As a …
Oct 27, 2015
2 min read
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